Monthly Archives: August 2010

Bookmark Google Calendar Searches

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Mathias

I think I have finally figured out how how to bookmark Google Calendar searches. The problem was that the search parameters did not seem to be passed using URL “get” parameters. The Google Calendar URL was always just https://www.google.com/calendar/render and … Continue reading →

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String Pool Interning Saves the Weakly Separable Day

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Mathias

I just took a swim in the string pool. Who would have thought that interning strings would be so useful for weak separability in Mint? I knew before that we had some problems calling [cci lang=”java”]String.equals[/cci] in a separable method, … Continue reading →

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New Mint Release: r15716

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Mathias

As mentioned before, Eddy and I discovered a problem with type variables in code generated by the Mint compiler. We have now fixed this problem in the new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: August 30, 2010 (r15716). The … Continue reading →

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Passing a Class<T> for Every Type Variable T

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Mathias

When working on our GPCE Mint tutorial, Eddy and I realized that there is a problem when programmers use type variables inside brackets. A method like [cc lang=”java”]public separable Code fun(Code c1, Code c2) { return ; }[/cc] causes Mint … Continue reading →

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New Mint Release: r15707

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Mathias

When working on our GPCE tutorial, Eddy and I discovered a small bug in the Mint compiler which I have now fixed in the new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: August 24, 2010 (r15707). The latest release is, … Continue reading →

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Two Pieces of Fail

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Mathias

I encountered two pieces of fail today already. Fail number 1: Absolutely no place to park my bike. This has been pretty much the case ever since the undergrads have been back. Rice built two new colleges right next to … Continue reading →

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New Mint Release: r15700

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Mathias

On Friday, I created a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: August 20, 2010 (r15700). The latest release is, as always, available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15700.tar.gz JavaMint-r15700-binaries.zip drjava-r5372-mint-r15700.jar The only changes that we made were a … Continue reading →

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Compiled “Run” Commands in DrJava

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Mathias

I had mentioned a while ago that the way we put together the commands that get interpreted when the user presses the “Run” button or types in java or applet or run in the Interactions Pane is very messy. I … Continue reading →

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Java Versions on the Mac

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Mathias

Stephen had some questions about Java on the Mac. I tried to answer them. From the DrJava site, I see notes that a JDK is already installed on OS X machinesâ€”that explains why I canâ€™t find downloads for it. There … Continue reading →

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GPCE’10 Tutorial Lecture: Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming in Java Mint

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Mathias

Eddy, Walid, and I proposed a tutorial lecture for GPCE’10, and we’re delighted to report that it has been accepted for presentation on Sunday, October 10, 2010. Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming in Java Mint Domain-specific languages … Continue reading →

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New Version of DrJava with Mint: drjava-r5366-mint-r15665

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Mathias

The DrJava team released a new stable version of DrJava today, drjava-stable-20100816-r5366. I therefore created a new release of DrJava with Mint: August 16, 2010 (drjava-r5366-mint-r15665.jar). The latest release is available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15665.tar.gz JavaMint-r15665-binaries.zip drjava-r5366-mint-r15665.jar Nothing … Continue reading →

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New DrJava Stable Release: drjava-stable-20100816-r5366

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Mathias

We have just released a new stable release of DrJava: drjava-stable-20100816-r5366. You can download it from SourceForge or from the DrJava homepage. Available for download at http://drjava.org . DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven … Continue reading →

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Improved DrC#?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Mathias

Recently, I was asked if there will ever be a new DrC# which is similar to DrJava. Unfortunately, I don’t expect an improved DrC# in the near future. We don’t have the funding and personnel to work on such a … Continue reading →

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I’m Going to Eindhoven

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Mathias

The Java Mint tutorial lecture called “Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming in Java Mint“, which Eddy and I proposed, has been accepted at GPCE 2010. I’m looking forward to being in Eindhoven in October. Before that, on … Continue reading →

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drjava.org Temporarily Unavailable

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Mathias

Our DrJava website is currently not available under the usual address (http://drjava.org). We are working on fixing this problem as quickly as possible. If you need access to the DrJava website in the meantime, please use one of these two … Continue reading →

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Rice University Virtual Tour

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Mathias

These are really cool panorama pictures of my university: Experience Rice University’s 300-acre campus and its urban surroundings by taking our virtual tour http://bit.ly/a7Yt0I If you click on the fourth image from the left in the navigation bar at the … Continue reading →

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Same Classpath in Front-End and Rest of Habanero Java Compiler

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Mathias

Vincent from the Habanero research group actually asked me to make the change of setting the Polyglot classpath to be the same as the Soot classpath. That involved spending about a day figuring out how to even build Habanero Java, … Continue reading →

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I <3 Unix

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Mathias

[cci]find . -name \*html -or -name \*inc | xargs grep -l “\.owlnet\.” | xargs -n 1 -i bash -c ‘p4 edit {}; sed -i “s/\.owlnet\./.clear./g” {}'[/cci]

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COMP 202 Links for Previous Semesters

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Mathias

Dung Nguyen noticed that the links for previous semesters that I have on my Fall 2008 COMP 202 page all lead back to my own page. I looked at the HTML source, and I do redirect to Owlnet, where the … Continue reading →

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That’s Just Past Perfect

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Mathias

README files written by some non-native speakers of English are killing me right now. What is it with all the past perfect tense?! All of these files had been put into the folder foo/bar, and the build files had been … Continue reading →

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